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More alerts are making your team slower, and an outcome-based SOC fixes that

In this Help Net Security video, Thom Langford, EMEA CTO, Rapid7, explains why piling on more security alerts makes a SOC slower to respond. Attackers log in with stolen …

ZoneAlarm Mobile Security
Product showcase: ZoneAlarm Mobile Security adds customizable content filtering to mobile security

ZoneAlarm Mobile Security is a security app from Check Point designed to protect mobile devices against phishing, malicious websites, unsafe networks, and fraudulent links. It …

WordPress
Two new high severity WordPress vulnerabilities, patch immediately!

The 7.0.2 WordPress security release addresses one critical and one high severity security issue. The vulnerabilities reported to the WordPress security team include: …

1Password Claude integration
Claude can now sign into websites with 1Password without exposing your credentials

1Password has introduced 1Password for Claude, a beta integration that lets Anthropic’s AI assistant complete browser tasks requiring authentication without accessing …

cybersecurity budgets
The five step plan that cuts security budget waste

In this Help Net Security video, Viktor Bulanek, CTO of Penetrify, explains where security budget waste comes from. Budgets get built around vendor categories, compliance …

Windows
Microsoft makes Windows SSO prompts easier to manage

Microsoft is introducing a new registry-based policy that lets IT administrators automatically accept Windows SSO permissions on Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 devices …

open source
What public money does to open-source projects

Most of the software running inside a typical company was written by volunteers the company never paid. Open-source code sits under web apps, build pipelines, and the machine …

ransomware
Ransom demands are down, email is the top way attackers get in

An employee opens an email that looks like any other, clicks a link, and gives up a password without noticing. A stolen login opens a door deeper in the network. Files stop …

monitor
Companies keep getting breached by vulnerabilities they already knew about

Scanning tools have gotten good at their work. Organizations now find more weaknesses across more of their systems than at any earlier point in the industry’s history. A …

email
Finance phishing works because it sounds boringly normal

Finance departments process a constant stream of invoices, contracts, payment notices, and procurement emails, making email one of the most common initial access vectors for …

SingGuard-NSFA
SingGuard-NSFA: Open-source guardrails for agentic AI

SingGuard-NSFA is an open-source guardrail framework aimed at operational threats in agent workflows. Four models ship at 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B parameters, all built on Qwen3.5 …

red team
The MDR renewal question: What changes when AI can handle the alerts

For most of the past decade, the managed detection and response (MDR) decision was a simple one: teams that couldn’t staff a 24/7 SOC outsourced detection and response …

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